acetabulum

English

Etymology

From Latin acetabulum (“a little saucer for vinegar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈtæb.jə.ləm/
• Hyphenation: ace‧tab‧u‧lum

Noun

acetabulum (plural acetabula or acetabulums)

1. (Roman Antiquities) a vinegar cup
2. (Roman Antiquities) the socket of the hipbone
3. (Roman Antiquities) a measure of about one eighth of a pint
4. (anatomy) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
5. (anatomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
6. (anatomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
7. (anatomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
8. (anatomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

Derived terms

• acetabular

Translations

Roman Antiquities: Vinegar cup

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
• French: acétabule (fr) f
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• Latin: acētābulum n
• Persian: قاروره (fa) (qārūre)

Roman Antiquities: Socket of the hipbone

• French: acétabulum (fr) m
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• Latin: acētābulum n

Roman Antiquities: about one eighth of a pint

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Anatomy: bony cup that receives the head of the thigh bone

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
• Finnish: lonkkamalja (fi)
• French: acétabule (fr) f
• Latin: acētābulum n
• Lithuanian: gūžduobė f
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• Malay: asetabulum
• Portuguese: acetábulo m
• Romanian: acetabul n
• Russian: вертлу́жная впа́дина (ru) f (vertlúžnaja vpádina)
• Spanish: acetábulo (es)

Anatomy: Cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
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• French: acétabule (fr) f

Anatomy: Sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
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• Finnish: imukuppi

Anatomy: The large posterior sucker of the leeches

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
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• Finnish: imukuppi

Anatomy: One of the lobes of the placenta in the ruminating animals

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• French: (2a) ^{(please verify)} acétabule (fr) f
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Latin

Etymology

From acēt(um) (“vinegar”) +‎ -bulum (“a vessel for”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.keːˈtaː.bu.lum/, [äkeːˈt̪äːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.t͡ʃeˈta.bu.lum/, [ät͡ʃeˈt̪äːbulum]

Noun

acētābulum n (genitive acētābulī); second declension

1. A shallow cup for vinegar; acetabulum.
2. Any cup-shaped vessel.
3. (anatomy) The socket of the hipbone.
4. (botany) The cup of a flower.
5. accusative singular of acētābulum
6. vocative singular of acētābulum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	acētābulum	acētābula
genitive	acētābulī	acētābulōrum
dative	acētābulō	acētābulīs
accusative	acētābulum	acētābula
ablative	acētābulō	acētābulīs
vocative	acētābulum	acētābula

Descendants

• → English: acetabulum
• French: acétabule
• Italian: acetabolo
• Portuguese: acetábulo
• Romanian: acetabul

References

• “acetabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acetabulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• acetabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “acetabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “acetabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin